Capital Celluloid 2017 - Day 323: Wed Nov 22

Chicago Reader review:Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 follow-up to L'Avventura—and middle feature in a loose trilogy ending with L'Eclisse—repeats
many of the melancholic themes of its predecessor, with particular
emphasis on the boredom and atrophied emotions of the rich. The results
are somewhat more mixed, though on the whole the performances are
better—which may not matter so much in an Antonioni context. The minimal
plot, restricted to less than 24 hours, involves the death of passion
between a successful novelist (Marcello Mastroianni) and his frustrated
wife (Jeanne Moreau). The best parts of this movie tend to cluster
around the beginning and end, and include the novelist's brief encounter
with a nymphomaniac patient at a hospital and his longer encounter with
the daughter (Monica Vitti) of an industrialist at a party; one of the
worst is a walk taken by the wife around Milan, full of symbolic and
pretentious details.Jonathan Rosenbaum